A research team has discovered the Fano resonance interference effect between mixed atomic spins. They proposed a novel magnetic noise suppression technique, reducing magnetic noise interference by at least two orders of magnitude. The study was published in Physical Review Letters. The team was led by Prof. Peng Xinhua and Associate Prof. Jiang Min from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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Dr. Peter Boghossian, Dr. James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose discuss Intersectionality, and whether or not it has taken on characteristics of religions. Filmed 2/19/2018 at Portland State University.
A fringe ideology on the far left has taken over academia, suppressing free speech and promoting grievance studies over evidence-based research, with the goal of controlling society and imposing its ideology on others.
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What’s happening in American universities?
—A fringe ideology on the far left has taken over academia, suppressing free speech and promoting grievance studies over evidence-based research. This ideology aims to control society and impose its views on others. It’s spreading rapidly, metastasizing into other areas of society.
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Jef Boeke and his team create intricate works of art on Petri dishes using a palette of yeast paints.
Certain fields of academia, particularly those influenced by postmodernism and critical theory, have become corrupted by a focus on ideology over truth, leading to a lack of intellectual rigor and a stifling of rational discourse.
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What is the Sokal hoax?
—The Sokal hoax was a 1996 academic hoax where physicist Alan Sokal published a fake paper filled with nonsensical postmodern jargon in a Duke University journal to test if postmodern cultural critics would accept a nonsensical argument. The hoax exposed the abuse of scientific terminology to make political points in academia.
Discover how a patched Microsoft 365 Copilot vulnerability could have led to data theft using ASCII smuggling and prompt injection techniques.
Uber fined €290 million by Dutch regulator for improper transfer of European driver data to US, violating EU data protection standards.
A study coordinated by the University of Trento with the University of Chicago proposes a generalized approach to the interactions between electrons and light. In the future, it may contribute to the development of quantum technologies as well as to the discovery of new states of matter. The study is published in Physical Review Letters.
Panpsychism vs. Panprotopsychism?Interview from the Conference “Emergence and Panpsychism” in Munich 2011.More information and the complete list of videos he…
In her new book, Sara Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of ‘things’ is how the living use information.
